The house needs to quickly draft a bill that deals only with border security and perhaps e-verify and put it on the president's desk. He can then either sign it or let it ride. Of course it would have to first get through the Senate.

7:56 pm July 16, 2013

Dave Francis wrote:

To patriotic Citizens and legal residents, the unemployed, every skin color, there's no other way to say this?

If you don't want a 100% Liberal Progressive-Democrat-ruled country for the next 100 years, then you need to act?

America's future is at grave risk. Amnesty's repercussions are far worse than anyone is aware?

Should an amnesty bill pass in the House here's what will happen:

Regardless of the bill saying no voting rights for legitimized foreign nationals, Obama will reject the “Rule of Law “America and Congress and grant voting rights anyway through Executive Order—the same way he did in the 2012 election. Tell Congress right here what you think about this amnesty through the petition and fax pathways at NUMBERSUSA.

With these new voters flooding in—LEGAL & ILLEGAL--, we will lose the House in 2014 to the Lib-Democrats who will also control the Senate and White House. America will become a one-party rule. Liberal Progressives who have slipped in their words, that the U.S. Constitution is obsolete, will change the election laws, voting rights and abolish our Constitution.

But YOU have the power to stop it! AT numbersusa and write your own point or copy the one exhibited. Then at americanpatrol is a daily report from newspapers across the country, illustrating the huge rise in drunk drivers, and other atrocious crimes the Socialist-left leaning press keeps concealed. Advise your representatives by phoning any of the100 Senators and 435 Representatives for State or Federal at toll-free number -- 1-888-978-3094--.You may phone the United States Capitol circuit at (202) 224-3121. A terminal operator will connect you straight with the Senate office or just about anybody in Washington.

The few lawmakers who see the writing on the wall have turned to us for help—to create a stampede of anti-amnesty messages so huge, Washington lawmakers will be forced to retreat.

Did you hear what needs to be done? Only the grassroots can make kill the amnesty movement now.

Join us in Fax blasting every member of Congress at numbersUSA.com. Tell them "NO! WE DON'T WANT AMNESTY!" Do it today. Time is running out.

If this Senate bill passes AS-IS, millions of legitimate nationals will be able to seek work, condemning millions of Americans still seeking a job, to even longer lines at the employment offices. Under another Obama’s Executive Orders, although the promise has declared no benefits--the laws will be engineered so as not stifle the free flow of food stamps and emergency public assistance. E-Verify the main contender for business enforcements that is already used in thousands of businesses on a voluntary basis, is unlikely to be fully functional for 18 months? Why not? The fence will be overlooked as in 1986, the entry and exit tracking system and with no implementation of a fair share of ICE recruitment between the U.S. Border Patrol and the interior audit investigation. The United States business community will still be free to hire unauthorized labor. The Senate bill is placing too much emphasis on border enforcement by recruiting 20.000 new officers, when half should be spread within the country, to penalize business owners who believe they are above the law. A stint in jail would quickly change their minds?

NOT AN AMENDMENT TO THE CURRENT LAW, BUT IT SHOULD BE? The most expensive benefit that is exacted on taxpayers is the fabricated Birthright citizenship part of the 14th amendments. Already rescinded in Mexico and other countries this law allows the children of illegal aliens claim citizenship almost immediately. Only truly meant for the children of emancipated slaves and of succession after the Civil War and should only be given to citizen children. The dollars are in the hundreds of billions in lucrative payments that supplement the parent’s low incomes.

8:31 pm July 16, 2013

Curious wrote:

“It does not make sense to me, if we’re gonna make this once-in-a-generation effort to finally fix the system, to leave the status of 11 million people or so unresolved, and certainly for us to have two classes of people in this country, full citizens, and people who are permanently resigned to a lower status,” he said.

There are three classes - those who are legal residents, those who have work visas and those who are illegal. Those who are here do not deserve a 'path to citizenship' and should feel lucky to get legal work visas out of the changes.
As a sovereign country, we should be able to decide who should be admitted and we should focus on people who have skill and means - similar to the Mexican requirements. We are a melting pot not the United States of Northern Mexico.
If the illegals flaunted our laws to get here we should assume they will break the law again when it is convenient

9:15 pm July 16, 2013

Stentor wrote:

In the immortal words of Nutty Nancy: "You have to pass it to find out what's in it" Small bills just don't have enough nooks and crannies to stuff the kind of junk legislation Mr Obama and the Democrats seem to specialize in. Not enough room to pack mischief.

11:21 pm July 16, 2013

forumsforjustice wrote:

Got News for Obama; there are no "musts" from, we, the people

The CBO analysis also shows that average wages of American workers would be lower than they otherwise would be through at least the first 10 years of the law's enactment. The unemployment rate would also rise for the first decade, due to a large increase in the labor force.

It's time to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants ....
Since the 1986 Reagan Amnesty, 5.5 million anchor babies have been born to illegal immigrants, at a cost of 100's of billions of dollars to American taxpayers (just for birth, and education). Now, in addition, there is a burgeoning birthright citizenship tourism industry among Chinese in America.

it's time to end chain migration ...
we already have enough poverty of our own, without importing even more....
for each illegal immigrant granted citizenship in 1986, 5 poor, and uneducated, immigrant relatives followed.

360,000 part-time jobs created last month ..........

240,000 full-time jobs lost

population growth 250,000/month

U6 Unemployment Rate = 14.6%

Employment still hasn't regained the number reached in
January, 2008 .. 138.056 million employed;
this despite a population increase of more than 12.5 million.

At least Obama understands what is going on. Doing this mess "comprehensively" is an attempt to mix honey and castor oil to get a mixture that can be choked down. This is precisely why we shouldn't do it this way. We should debate doing the honey and refuse to do the castor oil. The fact that the various groups perceive the issues differently and regard the honey and castor oil differently is the politics of resolving the issues but we should resist doing these terrible mixtures to buy off various groups.

1:11 am July 17, 2013

tRIKER wrote:

Oh yes. Obama's package is welfare, free food and medical, free admittance to schools and colleges and WE, (us working Legal Americans0 can pay for it....I hope these politicians realize that any of them who vote for this are going to be on the DO NOT RE-ELECT list. How is it that one group of people get to sneak into this country and get amnesty and those from other countries have to do it legally. This sucks as does this President.

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